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Gov. Jerry Brown has released his first campaign ads, but they don't tell you to vote for him. They ask you to support Proposition 1 (a water bond measure) and Proposition 2 (a rainy day budget measure).

Some employees who worked for an Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Nevada, had to wait nearly 25 minutes after each shift to be screened by security. They want to be compensated for that time.

A committee headed by Councilman David Alvarez recommended the full City Council make voluntary water-use restrictions mandatory.

Pope Francis hasn't ruled out changing church doctrine that bars divorced and remarried Catholics from receiving Holy Communion. There are fierce opponents, while others favor simplifying annulment.

A weather map on Wednesday showed no significant watches or warnings across the Lower 48.

Warner Bros. Pictures just released the first glimpse of the movie "American Sniper," based on the late Chris Kyle's bestselling memoir. Bradley Cooper stars, Clint Eastwood directs, and based on the trailer, the movie is sure to raise a lot of controversy.

If we are able to create intelligent machines, how can we guarantee they will keep us alive and well, as opposed to wiping us out? Nick Bostrom explores the question in Superintelligence.

After years of planning, Hawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope broke ground Tuesday. But a group interrupted the ceremony, angry about the telescope's location on a mountain held sacred by Native Hawaiians.

The tented 200-bed cold-weather homeless shelter will open Nov. 1 at the end of a city street at 16th Street and Newton Avenue and remain in operation until the end of March.

From the time of slavery, some light-skinned African-Americans escaped racism by passing as white. The new book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, explores what they lost.